Limited
Participation

The written Learning Disabilities (LD) Report may
provide as a “reasonable accommodation” a recommendation to temporarily
assign the WTW participant with verified LD to fewer hours of
participation.In these instances, the
Employment Case Manager (ECM) must use the Telephone Consultation to ask the
LD Specialist for guidance in appropriately developing or amending the
Welfare-to-Work (WTW) Plan.

Supplemental
Activities

ECMs
may allow fewer hours of participation in WTW activities, on a case-by-case
basis, for participants with verified LD who require fewer hours as a
reasonable accommodation.

ECMs
should first explore with the LD Specialist and the participant any options
that would allow fewer hours of participation in the participant’s primary
activity, supplemented with hours in other allowable activities, that will
enable the participant to meet his/her 32/35-hour per week participation
requirement.

Any
supplemental activities must support the participant’s employment goals and must
be consistent with the recommendations in the LD Report and the WTW
Plan.

Supplemental
activities, which are to be tracked under the Adult Basic Education (ABE)
component, include but are not limited to:

·Remedial Training;

·Literacy Tutoring; and/or

·Study Time (only if recommended in
the LD Report as a reasonable accommodation).

Allowing
Fewer Hours of Participation

If
the participant’s verified learning disability prevents full participation in
WTW (32/35 hours per week), including primary WTW activities and supplemental
activities, the ECM must allow fewer hours of participation as recommended by
the LD Specialist.The LD Specialist’s
recommendations must be documented in the WTW case.

When assigning fewer hours of participation as a
reasonable accommodation for learning disabilities, the ECM must:

Step

Action

1

Clearly document in case comments the reason for
assigning the participant to fewer hours of participation;

2

Develop with the participant a WTW Plan that clearly
indicates the primary activity, any secondary and/or supplemental
activities, and the number of hours per week authorized as a Learning
Disabilities Accommodation (LDA);

3

Ensure that the activities listed in CalWIN match the
WTW Plan or WTW Plan Amendment; and

4

At the time of making entries to the CalWIN
Attendance History screen, the LDA hours are to be credited to the primary
WTW activity, unless the primary activity is an employment component.

NOTE:LDA hours may not be credited
to an employment component.For
employed participants, LDA hours must be credited to the secondary
component.

Examples
of Activity Coding With Fewer Hours Due to LD

The
LD Specialist confirms that the individual may participate in a maximum of 20
hours per week of Part-Time Employment (PTE) and 8 hours per week of Adult
Basic Education (ABE).

Therefore, the ECM
assigns the participant to the following activities:

·20 hours per week of PTE; and

·12 hours per week of
ABE (8 actual hours + 4 hours LDA)

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32 total hours

EXAMPLE 2:

The
LD Specialist confirms that the individual may participate in a maximum of 20
hours per week of Work Experience (WEX) and 8 hours per week of Adult Basic
Education (ABE).

Therefore, the ECM
assigns the participant to the following activities:

·24 hours per week of
WEX (20 actual hours + 4 hours LDA); and

·8 hours per week of ABE

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32 total hours per week

The
WTW Plan or WTW Plan Amendment must clearly indicate the breakdown
between actual hours and LDA hours.

NOTE: LDA hours are essentially good
cause for not participating in the required 32/35 hours per week of WTW
activities.

Inter-CountyTransfers

When a CalWORKs recipient with a verified learning
disability moves from one county to another, the sending Human Services Specialist
(HSS) will forward to the receiving county a copy of the written LD Report,
along with the other Inter-County Transfer (ICT) documentation.

County of San Diego CalWORKs HSS’s, who receive a
written LD Evaluation from another county for any of their
applicants/recipients, must immediately forward a copy of the report and/or
evaluation to the individual’s ECM or the LD Liaison of the participant’s
prospective Employment Site, if the individual has not yet been assigned to
an ECM.

Upon receipt of a written LD Report and/or LD
Evaluation from another county, the ECM must use the information contained in
the report/evaluation to meet with the participant and develop or amend the
participant’s WTW Plan, ensuring that appropriate activities, services, and
reasonable accommodations are included.

Confidential Medical Records and the Learning
Disabilities Report

Employment and Eligibility Staff are reminded that
medical records and written LD reports/evaluations must be treated as confidential documents and
should be shared with LD evaluators, outside agencies, and WTW partner
agencies on a “need-to-know” basis andonly with a valid,
properly completed Permission to
Release Learning Disabilities Information (WTW 20), that has been signed
and dated by the participant.Also,
confidential participant information must never be transmitted via e-mail.